New Years Eve.....Sydney 2006

We had planned on going to the Blue Mountains, unfortunately the weather report wasn't great and decided it would be for the best to leave it for another day..was a good job really as apparently it had snowed up there..!? We just chilled with rick spent the day browsing Sydney and drinking cafe Latte...well for a change that is??
New years eve was a bit of a long one...we was up bright and early Paul and Rick both nursing hangovers!!! We decided we would get an excellent view form the Botanical gardens...we finally reached the gardens and had to queue for over 2hrs...people was getting through the security and then literally legging it down to all the best spots..! Eventually got through found a fairly good spot...good view of the bridge and the opera house..although there was a big tree blocking a bit of the sky with its branches?? We started off with a decent amount room, was able to lie down and chill...played a few games of cards, Yahtzee, name game, fuzzy duck...we kept ourselves well entertained....by tea-time the park was so busy every little tiny piece of grass had been taken we didn't have as much room as we started out with, it was just unbelievable just a sea of people everywhere...i wont even start to tell you about the toilets!!!!!
The first fire work display was at 2100..it was great so nice...the fire works was absolutely out of this world...we did have a little bit of the sky blocked by the tree but managed ok!!! Then at midnight..we had the main one....too be honest im not sure if the 2100 one was better??? There was more fireworks on the bridge at mid-night but overall think there display was better first time round....we did the countdown and then wished us (our group) happy new year, it was weird no-one else wished us happy new year as soon as it hpnd everyone sort of just went off??? Was bizarre....bit like people didn't recognise it was new year??..no songs was sang..nothing!!!! Worst of all we wasn't even drunk....the bar had run out of beer/wine so we had to make do with this horrible fizzy crap....that tasted like toilet cleaner...came to a point were we had to hold our nose to drink it...hence why the drinking games started!!!
New years day today...me, Paul and Kate have celebrated by treating ourselves to of course a coffee...? what? and lunch down at the opera house...was very yummy!!! Think we may partake in a beverage tonight..although i have to say im still poorly, i sound like a man and have all week..Paul finds it hilarious....oh yeh forgot aswell you no when we went out other night...??? I did tell you but we all went out other night and well this lady was speaking to me and Kate, Kate then went to the toilet and she asked me if kate was my daughter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was mortified...think i just opened my mouth to answer but nothing came out..i was and am still in shock!!!!! Needless to say iv stocked up on moisturising age cream....must be all the stress ha ha!!!

Spoke to Quantas again re Fiji..basically they have said the only thing they can do for us is let us fly from here on the 4th to Auckland then from Auckland fly direct to L.A....which would mean missing Fiji and Hawaii?? If we decide to do that we will just hire a car and travel America for a while, but Paul has already done this so?? We still have the option to stick to our original ticket but this means we wouldnt be insured for our time in Fiji...so not sure if it would be worth risking it?? It has been pretty quiet over there recently but if somehting happened when we was there...the goverment are saying essential travel only..must be for a reason?

Anyway Happy New Ears to you all...all the the best for 2007!!!!!!!!!!!!!